tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241052946247697933.post7874476740363409780..comments2023-03-25T05:33:16.248-07:00Comments on Bread & Butter: Balancing the Overall Budget Is Like AtB Cost Cutting in a Company
Whose Stuff Isn't SellingOhm (Ώ)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14090654932133115900noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1241052946247697933.post-642452361406530902012-08-15T09:56:14.497-07:002012-08-15T09:56:14.497-07:00"Give me Liberty, or Give me Death!" - P..."Give me Liberty, or Give me Death!" - Patrick Henry<br /><br />What a brilliant ruling by the United States Supreme Court on the affordable health care act (Obamacare). Stunningly brilliant in my humble opinion. I could not have ask for a better ruling on a potentially catastrophic healthcare act than We The People Of The United States received from our Supreme Court.<br /><br />If the court had upheld the constitutionality of the individual mandate under the commerce clause it would have meant the catastrophic loss of the most precious thing we own. Our individual liberty. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Supreme Court.<br /><br />There is no mandate to buy private for-profit health insurance. There is only a nominal tax on income eligible individuals who don’t have health insurance. This is a HUGE! difference. And I suspect that tax may be subject to constitutional challenge as it ripens.<br /><br />This is a critically important distinction. Because under the commerce clause individuals would have been compelled to support the most costly, dangerous, unethical, morally repugnant, and defective type of health insurance you can have. For-profit health insurance, and the for-profit proxies called private non-profits and co-ops.<br /><br />Equally impressive in the courts ruling was the majorities willingness to throw out the whole law if the court could not find a way to sever the individual mandate under the commerce clause from the rest of the act. Bravo! Supreme Court.<br /><br />Thanks to the Supreme Court we now have an opportunity to fix our healthcare crisis the right way. Without the obscene delusion that Washington can get away with forcing Americans to buy a costly, dangerous and highly defective private product (for-profit health insurance).<br /><br />During the passage of ACA/Obamacare some politicians said that the ACA was better than nothing. But the truth was that until the Supreme Court fixed it the ACA/Obamacare was worse than nothing at all. It would have meant the catastrophic loss of your precious liberty for the false promise and illusion of healthcare security under the deadly and costly for-profit healthcare system that dominates American healthcare.<br /><br />As everyone knows now. The fix for our healthcare crisis is a single payer system (Medicare for all) like the rest of the developed world has. Or a robust Public Option choice available to everyone on day one that can quickly lead to a single payer system.<br /><br />Talk of privatizing/profiteering from Medicare or social security is highly corrupt and Crazy! talk. And you should cut the political throats of any politicians giving lip service to such an asinine idea. Medicare should be expanded, not privatized or eliminated.<br /><br />We still have a healthcare crisis in America. With hundreds of thousands dieing needlessly every year in America. And a for-profit medical industrial complex that threatens the security and health of the entire world. The ACA/Obamacare will not fix that.<br /><br />The for-profit medical industrial complex has already attacked the world with H1N1 killing thousands, and injuring millions. And more attacks are planned for profit, and to feed their greed.<br /><br />To all of you who have fought so hard to do the kind and right thing for your fellow human beings at a time of our greatest needs I applaud you. Be proud of your-self.<br /><br />God Bless You my fellow human beings. I'm proud to be one of you. You did good.<br /><br />See you on the battle field.<br /><br />Sincerely<br /><br />jacksmith – WorkingClass :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com